Better late than never

[tysolna]

Learning something is like rowing upstream - as soon as you stop doing it, you drift back. And I have drifted back musically, and the pieces I was able to play fifteen years ago are currently beyond my ability.
So I got my old violin etude books out of the cellar, the Sevciks and Dofleins and Tartinis. It's been some time since I felt the need to get back to those, to improve my playing, because what I could play seemed enough in the context of the band. It probably still is, but that doesn't mean I can't practice a lot more so I get better.
This realization is almost thirty years too late. When I started playing, I was too lazy to practice, and mum had to bribe me with Wonder Woman comic books.
I can't time travel to kick my younger self into gear, but I can do something so that my older self won't want to time travel to kick my present self.